Fore-feng

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fore-feng

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-fong, es;

fore-feng
m. [ = for-feng] A seizing, rescuing; apprehensio :-- Be forstolenes monnes forefonge of seizing a stolen man, L. In. 53; Th. i. 134, 15. Be forefonge [forefenge MSS. B, G, H.], 72; Th. i. 148, 5. Be forstolenes ceápes forefonge of the rescuing of stolen property, 75; Th. i. 150, 4.

Related words: for-fang. fore-feng

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